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Brian Barbash
Brian R. Barbash is the product review editor for Web Services Journal. He is a senior consultant and technical architect for Envision Consulting, a unit of IMS Health, providing management consulting and systems integration that focuses on contracting, pricing, and account management in the pharmaceutical industry. |
SOA Product Review:
Watchfire AppScan By Brian Barbash  Security is a major
component of application
development and must be
tailored to the
environment and audience
of the system. In many
respects, the more widely
available an application
is, the more important
security becomes.
Properly testing and
securing Web Servi... Feb. 11, 2007 09:45 PM Reads: 13,992 Replies: 1 | SOA Web Services Product
Review — Oracle
Business Activity
Monitoring By Brian Barbash  Services Oriented
Architectures (SOAs) and
business collaboration
technologies and
platforms, often enabled
by Web Services and
orchestration constructs
like BPEL, can be a
tremendous business
benefit. SOAs can provide
the fl exibility in
enterprises to adapt to
... Sep. 21, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 16,144 Replies: 1 | Java Product Review:
Mindreef SOAPscope Server By Brian Barbash  By nature Web Services is
a distributed technology.
With distribution comes
great flexibility for
architectural topologies.
Components can be
strategically placed in
different physical
locations to optimize
performance, maintenance
and business processes.
In large... Aug. 2, 2006 05:45 PM Reads: 16,588 Replies: 2 | SOA Product Review:
Mindreef SOAPscope Server By Brian Barbash  By nature Web Services is
a distributed technology.
With distribution comes
great flexibility for
architectural topologies.
Components can be
strategically placed in
different physical
locations to optimize
performance, maintenance
and business processes.
In large... Jun. 20, 2006 06:45 PM Reads: 12,952 Replies: 2 | FusionWare Integration
Server By Brian Barbash  In a service-oriented
architecture, the
ultimate goal is to
quickly and easily build
new applications as
composites of existing
services. Building out
the independent services
in a manner that supports
reuse is itself very
challenging. However,
several tools are
... Dec. 15, 2005 12:45 PM Reads: 14,042 Replies: 2 | A Review Of Oracle
Application Server 10g By Brian Barbash  A number of solutions
exist for creating
Java-based Web services
from a variety of
different providers.
Options range from
individual processing
engines that plug into
existing application
servers to large
enterprise-class
platforms in which Web
services is one ... Dec. 2, 2005 10:45 AM Reads: 51,092 Replies: 5 | BPM Suite From Bluespring
Software By Brian Barbash  In the past, business
process management has
not been a significant
area of concern for many
corporations. However,
with increased regulatory
scrutiny facing companies
today, the need for
formalized definitions,
checks and balances, and
management oversight is a
reality. Nov. 7, 2005 10:45 AM Reads: 16,777 Replies: 2 | Stylus Studio 6 From
Progress Software, An
Integrated Tool With
Breadth By Brian Barbash  XML Development - the
term can mean many
different things given
the technologies
currently available. At
the center of it all is
XML Schemas, DTDs and
instance documents.
Building out from the
base there's XSL, Web
Services and XQuery just
to name a few. Because o... Oct. 11, 2005 11:30 AM Reads: 20,096 Replies: 3 | Cordys BCP - True
Collaboration SOA Web
Services By Brian Barbash  Building truly
collaborative systems
relationships between
organizations is a
daunting challenge in
today's business
environment. While
technologies such as Web
services have risen to
assist, true
collaboration requires a
far greater set of
functionality. Sep. 7, 2005 09:15 PM Reads: 22,179 Replies: 3 | Product Review: Altova
Enterprise Suite 2005 By Brian Barbash  XML development is a term
that can mean many things
to many different people.
For some, it is the
modeling and creation of
XML Schemas and instance
documents used to
exchange data. Others see
it as a part of the
larger effort of
developing Web services.
Still othe... Aug. 19, 2005 03:45 AM Reads: 30,330 Replies: 3 | Fuego Studio 5.1 By Brian Barbash Organizations large and
small routinely face
challenges in managing
business processes. From
an administrative
standpoint, policies and
procedures are put in
place to ensure
compliance. However, no
matter how strictly they
are enforced, there are
always those who ... Jan. 4, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 19,710 | Adobe FrameMaker 7.1 By Brian Barbash XML's surface-level
simplicity hides a
deceptively complex
beast. At first glance,
creating an XML document
does not take a lot of
effort. Create some tags,
ensure they are
well-formed, and that's
it. Throw in a DTD or
Schema and now there are
a set of rules again... Dec. 2, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,837 | Forum Systems XWall Web
Services Firewall By Brian Barbash Security is important.
Anyone in the business of
designing, developing,
hosting, or managing
business applications
understands this
fundamental statement.
Web services present
unique challenges such
that the integrity and
security of the content
of the exchanged
... Oct. 1, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,861 Replies: 1 | Oracle BPEL Process
Manager By Brian Barbash Service-oriented
architecture (SOA), while
its underpinnings have
been around for years,
has recently become one
of the most talked about
topics in the IT
industry. The interest in
SOAs is largely due to
the emergence of Web
services and their
ability to expose
... Aug. 3, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 42,008 | Cape Clear Data
Interchange 4.7 By Brian Barbash No matter how advanced
enterprise systems
become, the
sophistication of the
tools available to build
them, or the advances of
architectural approaches
and best practices from
which to start, the life
blood of any system is
the raw data. Without the
data, what's th... Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 16,784 | SOAPScope 3.0 from
Mindreef By Brian Barbash Since WSJ last looked at
Mindreef's SOAPScope back
in July '03 (Vol. 3,
issue 7), much has been
added in functionality
and features to benefit
the package. New items
include integration with
Visual Studio .NET,
integration with the WS-I
testing tools, a new
Graph ... Mar. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 17,198 | AmberPoint Express from
AmberPoint, Inc. By Brian Barbash Not surprisingly, Web
services management tools
are quickly appearing to
assist developers and
system administrators
alike with the
maintenance of
service-based
applications. One such
product is AmberPoint
Express, a free Web
services management and
monitoring t... Mar. 5, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 24,623 | XMLSPY 2004 from Altova -
An excellent tool gets a
powerful addition By Brian Barbash Altova recently released
the 2004 version of
XMLSPY and introduced a
new product, MapForce
2004. This new version
includes several updates
and features that will
assist with Web services
development while also
providing a graphical XML
mapping tool for data
transformation. Dec. 31, 2003 09:41 AM Reads: 15,074 | WASP UDDI 4.6 - Extra
features add to a solid
product By Brian Barbash If you're looking to
deploy a UDDI registry
that provides strong
standards support, a
capable API, and security
and management
capabilities, look no
further than Systinet's
WASP UDDI version 4.6.
WASP UDDI is a UDDI
server that supports UDDI
specification versions... Dec. 31, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 13,509 | Fiorano ESB - A strong
enterprise service bus
solution By Brian Barbash Web services have staked
their claim as a key
technology in building
and integrating large,
distributed enterprise
systems. More often than
not, however, Web
services may be just one
piece of a myriad of
interfaces. Dec. 1, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 15,989 Replies: 6 | Sift 1.5 by Service
Integrity By Brian Barbash With Web services
becoming more prevalent
in organizations, keeping
tabs on performance,
analyzing problems, and
managing overall quality
of service is as
important as ever. Sep. 26, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 12,046 | WebFace & WebFace Studio
by Vultus By Brian Barbash As Web services
proliferate and more and
more applications expose
their business logic in
this manner, the need for
effective user interfaces
to consume these services
grows. WebFace and
WebFace Studio, from
Vultus, provide a means
of creating rich,
Windows-like u... May. 23, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 13,387 | XMLSPY 5 Enterprise
Edition By Brian Barbash XMLSPY Enterprise Edition
version 5 provides a
powerful set of XML tools
and utilities to develop
and test XML-based
applications and Web
services. Several new
features that expand on
its XML tool base are
available in this new
version, including a WSDL
editor, XS... Nov. 18, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 14,394 | AltoWeb Application
Platform By Brian Barbash The AltoWeb Application
Platform is a
J2EE-compliant system
designed to provide an
integrated environment to
develop, deploy, and
manage Web-based and
services-based
applications. It allows
developers to create
applications without
specific knowledge of
enterpri... May. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 14,859 | eXtend Composer by
SilverStream By Brian Barbash SilverStream eXtend
Composer is part of the
SilverStream eXtend
family that provides a
visual development
environment used to
create service-oriented
applications. Composer
allows developers to
create services that
gather data from multiple
disparate sources, appl... Mar. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 16,462 | SpiritWave from
SpiritSoftA Flexible,
Reliable Messaging System
Tool By Brian Barbash SpiritWave 4.4 from
SpiritSoft is a
vendor-independent,
JMS-compliant messaging
system that provides a
common interface to
heterogeneous messaging
systems. It supports the
publish/subscribe and
point-to-point messaging
paradigms. To leverage
existing investments i... Jan. 11, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 14,493 | CapeConnect Two for
J2EEby Cape Clear By Brian Barbash Two distinct initiatives
have come to the
forefront as means by
which applications can
be presented as Web-based
services: Microsoft's
.NET and the J2EE
platform. Application
servers and toolsets are
beginning to tailor
themselves to the Web
services paradigm a... Nov. 30, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 14,651 | Product Review: zeroCode By Brian Barbash ZeroCode is a Web-based
development environment
that allows a team to
graphically develop a
Web-based database
application with minimal
handwritten code. The
development environment
is Web-based and housed
on zeroCode servers.
Developers build the
application via ... May. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 13,789 | WebKing 2.0 by ParaSoft
Corporation By Brian Barbash ParaSoft's WebKing 2.0
Web testing software is a
tool to assist developers
in testing and deploying
dynamic Web sites. It
applies traditional C/C++
and Java testing
techniques to the Web
environment to identify a
multitude of potential
errors in a site. WebKing
al... Dec. 1, 2000 12:00 AM Reads: 15,376 |
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